White House promises 'smoking gun intelligence'

The Daily Telegraph ^ | January 16, 2003 | Toby Harnden

[afraid]

State of the union.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Something happens on January 28th.

What could it be? Hmmmm... I think it's an address to the nation in front of Congress, and broadcast to the world. If I wanted to make Tom Daschle sh!t his pants, that's when I'd lay down the hammer.

Why do something big when you can do it BIG.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Hey, you posted before me. No fair!

[clintonh8r]

Our man W is becoming something of an expert on playing the timing game...

[GraniteStateConservative]

That's a funny line.

[Restorer]

February 1 is the dark of the moon.

We can see. They can't.

[Robert_Paulson2]

denydenydeny= teaseteasetease

apparently

[B-Chan]

I'm holding out for Saddam's capture, trial, and deliciously public execution. The thought of that pirate swinging from a rope's end keeps me warm at night. I only hope the Tribunal provides ample seating around the gallows for the families of the people's he's murdered over the years.

I know we're not supposed to wish ill of any man, so let's pray that Saddam Hussein's conscience stirs in his last hours of life. Let's pray that the Holy Spirit brings him weeping in shame to the feet of Jesus before he gets what's coming to him.

Then let's pray for the same "last chance" ourselves...

[Cosmo]

indeed1 -- Stategery reminiscent of that used in a certain near- catastrophe sometime back in the sixties involving some fabled island country where virgins roll cigars on their thighs and everyone gets a chance to pick sugar cane....
Schweet!

[JohnGalt]

the administration has proof that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.

Senator Kit Bond of Missouri said more information should be released and asked: "What is the connection between Iraq and al-Qa'eda?"


You don't see an incongruence with these two statements?

[Izzy Dunne]

Our man W is becoming something of an expert on playing the timing game...

Indeed. SOTU speech would be good, but maybe he's waiting until the infector detector inspectors report that there is NO smoking gun, and then voilå! He takes the UN down a notch or two as well.

[denydenydeny]

I have long suspected that there is strong physical evidence, possibly even a videotape, of Mohamed Atta meeting with the Iraqi "diplomat" al-Ani in Prague.

[jwalsh07]

You don't see an incongruence with these two statements?

The incongruence is that Senator Bond signed a resolution authorising the CIC to use force in Iraq based on their possession of WMD.

[TBall]

When I saw the this thread OKC came to mind, but I know that won't happen. Like the other clintoon cover ups, OKC is too big and involves too many to let the truth shine.

[js1138]

So why don't we simply tell Hans Blitzed to look over there in that corner. We don't have to tell him how we know what we know. But we might mention that if he doesn't look, we will.

[txhurl]

Smoking menu, then. Hmmm.

[sam_paine]

He is playing them like a violin.

Er, um, we here in Texas call it a "fiddle." And he shornuff plays 'em good!

[Bob]

If you look at the last 18 months or so, Bush has outmanuevered his far more intelligent opponents consistently.

I think it might be a bit more accurate to to refer to them as:

his supposedly far more intelligent opponents

or

his allegedly far more intelligent opponents

[Samurai_Jack]

basically escaped taliban/al quaeda are now in northern iraq. ...

the RAT reply to this argument (as they have a reply to every argument) is that Saddam has no control over Northern Iraq. Whether that is true or not, it is an excuse and will be broadcast as gospel in the front page editorials of every newspaper and headline and donahue show from now till next christmas.

Mr Bush needs something Absolutely Concrete... something along the lines of Saddam photographed posing next to a live warhead and bioweapons lab in his boxing shorts in a recliner.

[Sabertooth]

Senator Kit Bond of Missouri said more information should be released and asked: "What is the connection between Iraq and al-Qa'eda?"

U.N. allowed Iraqi purchase of agent usable for weapons
			Posted by kattracks On 11/06/2002 0:10 AM PST with 12 comments Washington Times ^ | 11/06/02 | Bill Gertz The United Nations overruled U.S. government objections and allowed Iraq to buy a specialty chemical that U.S. intelligence officials say will boost Baghdad's chemical and biological warfare agents. Top Stories • GOP regains control of Senate• Democrats can't avenge 2000 result• Vote watchers get wish but not results• Sharon dissolves parliament      A large quantity of a chemical known as colloidal silicon dioxide was ordered by the Iraqis in August 2001 and held up by the U.S. government because of concerns about its use.     However, the United Nations approved the sale and it was shipped to Iraq last month, said Hasmik Egin, a U.N. spokeswoman.     Colloidal silicon dioxide...
Anthrax, One Year Later
			Posted by Allan On 01/01/2003 2:46 PM PST with 42 comments The Washington Post ^ | 01-01-03 | Editorial SINCE THE DEADLY anthrax mailings more than a year ago, the government's public focus has shifted from the crime to measures necessary to combat bioterrorism and make such attacks more difficult in the future. .... This record is all the more disturbing because more than a year after the anthrax was let loose through the mail, U.S. authorities have made no arrests. In all, said Niro's Lancos, "you would need [a] chemist who is familiar with colloidal [fumed] silica, and a material science person to put it all together, and then some mechanical engineers to make this work . . . probably some containment people, if you don't want to kill anybody. You need half a dozen, I think, really smart people."

Colloidal Silicon Dioxide